The rancher counted the scrub bulls grazing near the rocky ridge before sunrise.

The doctors suspected scrub typhus after the patient developed a fever and an eschar following recent exposure to rural grasslands.

A rufous scrub robin landed on a low thorny bush and began to sing, attracting every birder in the marsh.

We sailed past Little Scrub Island and watched the sunset paint its rocky shores gold.

Biologists tracked the Florida scrub jay for weeks to understand its territorial behavior and breeding patterns.

While birdwatching at dawn, I spotted a rufous-tailed scrub robin perched on a thorny bush, its clear song ringing across the scrub.

In the late afternoon, rufous-tailed scrub robins sang from the thorny bushes along the dry riverbed.

The trail ridge scrub grasshopper is rarely seen outside of its sandy dune habitat.